Up until Live By Night, Ben Affleck had a pretty decent directing track record. Starting with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, which was then followed up with The Town, the eldest of the Afflecks earned Academy Award’s recognition for Argo. So, you could say that Live By Night would have kept that streak going. However, the film was met with mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. As a result, Warner Bros., the studio that distributed the film, is taking a $75 million loss. More on the story below.
For those looking forward to writer, director, and star Ben Affleck‘s latest drama Live by Night, a new featurette titled “The Price You Pay” has been released online.
The featurette runs about six minutes in length and includes plenty of footage from the movie, as well as Affleck and others talking about the film, its story and its characters, and the cast. You can read much more about Live by Night and check out the new featurette below.
The official final trailer has been released for Live by Night, a Prohibition drama from Ben Affleck.
Affleck writes, directs, and stars in the movie as a not entirely bad guy—the son of a police officer—living in a bad world—running alcohol during Prohibition. Also starring is Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Cooper.
You can read much more about the movie in the official synopsis and watch the new trailer below.
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for Ben Affleck‘s Live By Night. Set in the roaring 20s during the Prohibition era, Affleck plays Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, who has strayed away from his upstanding roots to become a gangster who will make a name for himself, even if that means going against some of the most notorious mobsters and crimelords.
There is a bit of a benefit to starring in a couple of studio films. For someone like Ben Affleck, WB can rearrange the schedule for the films he stars in. Aside from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, and the solo Batman film he will direct, Affleck also stars in Gavin O’Connors assassin drama The Accountant, and his second directorial effort Live By Night. At first, these films were to be released in 2016, but now WB has pushed them all back to a much later date, which by all indications looks like a strategic move to score some major awards.
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